NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 18 of 42 graphics cards by recommenders
A mid-range graphics card that people say has run their games and other workloads reliably for years, and that they consider good value for the money.
A mid-range graphics card that people say has run their games and other workloads reliably for years, and that they consider good value for the money.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 9 years
Median of the 3 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it carries the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 12 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs reliably for many years
“I did use Nvidia GTX 1070 for a bunch of years without much of an issue”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features” “it's a workhorse in the same way something like a NVIDIA 1070 was”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Every GPU That Mattered” “It's ran perfectly well for almost a decade.”
Comment from 30 Nov 2025 in “Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming” Still runs current games
“I don't run games 4K and still haven't had any problems running reasonably pretty recent stuff.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI” “it still runs the games I care about”
Comment from 2 May 2026 in “Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?” Strong return on investment
“it worked so well that I couldn't argue with the results”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “I am giving up on VM Gaming” “Probably one of the best ROIs from a single component”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building”
Other graphics cards people recommend
The four most recommended other graphics cards, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 116 | 21 | 85% | 12 | 5 yrs14 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 102 | 37 | 73% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | 77 | 26 | 75% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia GPUs | 67 | 67 | 50% | 11 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070This page | 12 | 1 | 92% | 7 | 9 yrs3 owners | Approved |
What people said
11 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“its "free" except for eh electricity and have Ben pleasantly surprised at what it can get done chugging along in the background”
“which is only supported upto CUDA 11.9”
“the same as the GTX 1070 and 1080”
“it worked so well that I couldn't argue with the results”
“Probably one of the best ROIs from a single component”
“I did use Nvidia GTX 1070 for a bunch of years without much of an issue”
“I don't run games 4K and still haven't had any problems running reasonably pretty recent stuff.”
“it still runs the games I care about”
“it's a workhorse in the same way something like a NVIDIA 1070 was”
“Every model with ~4B parameters runs perfectly fine on even a Geforce 1070 Mobile GPU with 8Gb of memory.”
“It's ran perfectly well for almost a decade.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.